One week is in the books on the 2022 NFL season, and boy, was it a doozy.
Two games in Cincinnati and Houston went into overtime, with neither matchup featuring a team that seemed to want to win. Four games — in Atlanta, Cleveland, Seattle, and Tennessee — ended in some form of a blocked/missed/made last-minute field goal attempt. And nine (!) contests were decided by a single score. There’s no way the league keeps up this dramatic and tense pace moving forward, but crazier things have happened.
With the dust settling on Week 1, we return to the power rankings for the first edition after meaningful games this season. Yes, some juggernauts in Western New York and Eastern Missouri played exactly as we expected. While others with new star quarterbacks (cough, cough) might want to take the cartridge out of the Super Nintendo and reset their game system.
Here’s where all 32 NFL teams stand as we start to look ahead to Week 2.